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“Republicans won’t have the luxury they did in the House of voting no and still letting it pass,” Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said about the economic stimulus package set to hit the Senate floor this week on “Face the Nation.”

“This will pass with Republican votes because it is a good package and we will make some changes around the edges,” Schumer said. On those “changes,” Schumer said there are “little things” that will come out of the final package because Republicans can make amendments on the floor. “This is serious, serious stuff,” he asserted and said he hopes Senate Minority Leader does not do what House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) did in the House and just “say no.”

“President Obama has been involved in this in a very forceful way,” Senator Schumer said. “It is a smoke screen “ to say that the president’s bill is different than the House of Representatives’ bill. Bob Schieffer asked how many Republicans he can count on to vote for the bill to which Mr. Schumer said, “I think we will get enough Republicans to pass this, the more the better.” “I would rather have a really good bill that helps our economy get out of this mess with sixty five votes than dilute the bill and get eighty votes,” he admitted.

Chuckie seems pretty confident that the socialists will have enough RINO vote to pass the pork that the messiah wants so bad. Maybe he will and then again maybe not! We shall see this week if the republican senators cross the aisle or not.

"If every poor man is to come here and start requesting money for all his children, the applicants will never be satisfied and the nation's finances will collapse." Emperor Tiberius: Tacitus:Annals

“This will pass with Republican votes because it is a good package and we will make some changes around the edges,” Schumer said. On those “changes,” Schumer said there are “little things” that will come out of the final package because Republicans can make amendments on the floor. “This is serious, serious stuff,” he asserted and said he hopes Senate Minority Leader does not do what House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) did in the House and just “say no.”

Guess he hasn't paid too much attention to what the Republicans have been saying then.

WASHINGTON – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cut.

The Senate version of the bill, which topped out at nearly $900 billion, is headed to the floor for debate. The House bill totaled about $819 billion and earned no Republican votes, even though it easily passed the Democratic-controlled House. At some point lawmakers will need to compromise on the competing versions.

McConnell and other Republicans suggested that the bill needed an overhaul because it doesn't pump enough into the private sector through tax cuts and allows Democrats to go on a spending spree unlikely to jolt the economy. The Republican leader also complained that Democrats had not been as bipartisan in writing the bill as Obama had said he wanted.